Trinity prepares students for a starring role in understanding, creating, and managing these new and diverse modes of communication.

Why Study Media and Communication?

Study how media shapes public life while creating meaningful work across platforms. Gain hands-on experience from your first semester through KRTU, TigerTV, and the Trinitonian while learning from expert faculty.

Hands-On Media Experience

Students gain real-world experience from day one through campus media like KRTU, TigerTV, and the Trinitonian, and Mirage—developing skills in writing, broadcasting, production, and storytelling.

Creative and Analytical Learning

Courses combine media production with critical analysis, helping students understand how messages are created, interpreted, and shared across platforms.

Pathways to Industry

Internships, research, and mentorship connect students to careers in journalism, public relations, film, design, and strategic communication.

It’s a good fit for you if you:

  • Enjoy expressing ideas clearly through writing, speaking, and digital media
  • Are curious about how the media landscape shapes relationships, organizations, and society
  • Like collaborating with others to produce media messages 
  • Want to develop skills in storytelling, persuasion, and strategic messaging
  • Are interested in careers in media related to film, television, radio, podcasting, social media, design, journalism, advertising, public relations, etc.

The Media and Communication Major (B.A.)

The Media and Communication major prepares students to understand and manage media in a changing world. Students study journalism, advertising, public relations, film, design, media effects, law, and ethics, gaining experience through campus media, internships, and research.

In-Demand Skills

You’ll gain skills in:

  • Writing and producing across multiple media platforms
  • Media analysis, research, and critical interpretation
  • Strategic and creative communication

Interdisciplinary Curriculum:

You’ll complete 32 credit hours through coursework that spans media industries, creative production, research, and communication practice.

View Media and Communication B.A. requirements

The Media and Communication Minor

 22 Credit Hours  |  1.5 to 2 semesters of coursework

Strong communication skills expand your impact in any field.

The Media and Communication minor gives students from any major the opportunity to understand how messages are created, shared, and interpreted across media and audiences. Students explore areas such as media studies, strategic communication, journalism, and digital media while building skills in writing, analysis, and storytelling. You do not need to be a Media and Communication major to pursue this minor.

Communication pairs well with:

  • Strategic Communication
  • Film Studies,
  • Human Communication
  • Political Science
  • English
  • New Media
  • Psychology
  • Sociology
  • Theatre
  • Computer Science
Althea Delwiche presents at a podium in the front of a class

"AI, Creativity and Communication"

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In her class, “AI, Creativity and Communication,” Communication Professor Althea Delwiche, Ph.D., challenges students to grapple with the positives and negatives of the AI boom. 

Meet Your Faculty

Get to know the faculty in media and communication who are here to inspire, challenge, and support you every step of the way. Faculty have an "open door policy" and welcome questions from students. Most are available for questions during their office hours.

Recent Graduate Careers

Graduates enter a changing media landscape with technical skills and problem-solving from liberal arts. Media and Communication majors become journalists, PR pros, advertisers, filmmakers, designers, corporate communicators, and business owners.

Graduate Schools or Programs:

  • Art and Design Graduate Programs
  • Savannah School of Art and Design
  • Georgia Tech
  • Communication Graduate Programs
  • University of Wisconsin
  • University of Oklahoma
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • Law Schools
  • University of Texas - Austin
  • Duke
  • SMU
     

Notable Companies That Have Hired Trinity Graduates:

  • Buzzfeed
  • Electronic Arts
  • Facebook
  • NBC News
  • New York Times
  • Red Bull
  • U.S. Olympic Committee

Career Areas:

  • Corporate, Political, and Government Communication
  • Film and Television
  • Graphic and Web Design
  • Law
  • News
  • Strategic Communication - PR and Advertising

Get Your Questions Answered

Students interested in the Media and Communication major or minor should:

Meet with an academic adviser to explore introductory courses in Media and Communication, review degree requirements in the course catalog, and contact the Department of Media and Communication with any advising questions.

Department of Media and Communication

Location

Sid W. Richardson Communications Center

Phone

Fax

Emails

Chair

Melissa McMullen, Ph.D.